bash中的传统划分符号

Question

writing a little bash script on CentOS for my kids to practice math and would like to display the tradition division line with two dots rather than the standard "/".

Is there a way to do this in the linux bash shell?

Answer 1

You can print Unicode characters with hex values like this:

$ printf '\u00F7'
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or

$ echo -e '\u00F7'
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Answer 2

With bash:

printf "%b" "\xc3\xb7"

Output:

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